Protesters draped banners over the Parthenon defensive walls yesterday and stormed the Acropolis. Today Greece holds a general strike in protest of government austerity measures. Unions are rallying and schools, hospitals, shops, and most other locations are closed.
Nearly 200 workers gathered at the Ministry of Labour in Dubai demanding back wages their employers withheld.
In honor of the May 4th movement against censorship, Chinese netizens yesterday protested through an online flash mob. People sent out messages that said “freedom of speech.”
Thousands of Christians protested in northern Iraq to condemn a recent bus bombing that left 80 wounded.
A group of UC Berkeley students are staging a hunger strike for several demands: that the university oppose the new Arizona immigration law, drop disciplinary charges against protesters from the occupation of Wheeler Hall earlier this year, rehire laid-off janitors, and make the campus a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.
Members of the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota are exercising civil disobedience by fishing in non-reservation land, demonstrating their right to live off the land.
Activists in San Francisco staged a street theater protest this weekend against American Apparel’s sexist advertising.
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